Marland's Grand Home is a 1910s period mansion built in the luxurious Italian Renaissance Revival architecture style.

[1] The first floor of the Grand Home is decorated with period furnishings, art, china and silver services and family photos that evoke the Marland era.

The Grand Home featured a central vacuuming system, an automatic dishwasher, and an indoor swimming pool, all considered fabulous luxuries at the time.

[3][2][4] According to the application with the National Park Service for the Grand Home to be designated a historic landmark:[5] The mansion sets (sic) at the summit of quite a rise of ground while gradually sloping away are a series of terraced gardens ending with the greenhouse at the foot, there being six acres in this garden surrounded with a line of tall growing trees resembling poplars.

This is an enchanted spot with its rose gardens, pond lily basins, where all the familiar flowers of the north vie with the lovely varieties of the semi-tropics running a perfect riot.

It is a majestic monument in stone to one of the last of a "breed" - a fantastically successful wildcatter, a rags-to-riches individualist, an ambitious empire who created on the frontier a classic European villa where but a few decades earlier there had been only tepees.

It was in 1914, just three years after his initial strike, that he first decided to build for himself a home more worthy of his increasing wealth and growing importance in the petroleum industry.

This 22-room white stucco mansion at the east end of Ponca City's main street, Grand Avenue, is the result.

And for the next twelve years it was the scene of elaborate parties and increasingly important gatherings of social, political, entertainment world, and business figures from around Oklahoma and the country.

Even though his younger lieutenants (as he called his upper management employees) could beat him on the athletic field, Marland said he could outlast them in the pool.

[7] According to the Application to the U.S. National Park Service to become a historic landmark:[7] Before Hatashita's arrival, Marland's estate was described as "treeless, and barren".

To create Marland's vision, Hatashita designed and built formal and informal gardens, using elaborate shapes and patterns and a great variety of plants from around the country.

In order to make Marland's vision a reality, Hatashita oversaw a crew of up to as many as seventy-five (75) men and maintained a fifty (50) acre plant and treenursery.

[8] After the Paris family moved into the home they added many fine furnishings, particularly several antique pieces which they had acquired through their furniture store.

At the time there had been no bathroom on the 1st floor, so one was added utilizing space taken out of a next door powder room which held only a fainting couch and laundry chute.

The 101 Ranch Room was added with memorabilia pertaining to that famed institution and the D. A. R. added a Memorial Museum patterned after the one in Washington, D. C. The Grand Home began to serve as a City Garden Center and annually hosted countless parties, receptions, and other social events, as well as art shows, music club programs, and meetings of numerous civic groups.

The designation selection was based on architectural, industrial and social history significance and brought historical recognition to the Grand Home.

[13] The Native American Collection at the Marland's Grand Home in Ponca City was featured on 'Discover Oklahoma' on KFOR-TV channel 4 in 2015.